Saving Southwest Florida Families: A Community Solution to the Foster Care Crisis

About this episode

Megan shares her journey from childhood trauma to founding Better Together, a nonprofit aimed at reforming the foster care system.

Imagine standing between your parents with a baseball bat at just six years old, desperate to protect your mother—that was the terrified reality that forged the unstoppable spirit of today’s guest, Megan. In this episode of Spotlight on Good People, we explore how Megan turned personal childhood trauma into a revolution, founding Better Together to save families from a broken, reactive government foster care system We discuss how her organization acts as the "Uber of doing good,"...

People in this episode

Host: Robert DiLella

Guest: Megan

Topics covered

• foster care
• community solutions
• childhood trauma
• nonprofit organizations
• family support

Keywords

• foster care crisis
• community support
• childhood trauma
• Better Together
• family preservation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Better Together

Places: Southwest Florida

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